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Hehehehe,
I am chuckling because the last time I made the following statement someone actually said I was wrong and to PROVE it:
Here goes, again:
Professional baseball has disallowed the use of the scissor stance at AA baseball and below by their umpires (err, that would be when they get back to work).
The reason is that the insurance coverage company for both MLB abd MiLB has said that they will no longer cover injuries that come from the use of the stance.
What injury you may ask:
Here is the example that is given:
Take a tennis ball and hold it, with a straight arm, out in front of you. Hold it there for two minutes.
Now take a bowling ball and hold it it the same position. Impossible correct?
So consider your head as the bowling ball (now no comments that we have certain poster's that this isn't an analogy but a fact) . . . and that is the affect if you use the scissors stance.
MLB and MiLB baseball had many, many injuries that required surgery (and retirement for a couple of guys) that were traced directly to the use of the scissors stance and the effects on the neck and spinal cord.
Many, many MLB umpires have switched during the past few years . . . the scissors stance, other than those grandfathered in at the AAA and MLB level, is a disappearing dodo bird.
Information suplied by Mike Muchlinski, Darren Hyman, Gary Darling and Mike Winters.
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